N.Y., is keeping silent on whether she still stands by her ten-year deadline for action laid out in the Green New Deal.

Physicist Heinz von Foerster, who passed away in 2002, claimed back in 1960 in the "Science" publication that the world would end sometime in the 2020s, according to a report in Time Magazine. And we ...

The risk of nuclear war and the threat of climate change have caused the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe to two minutes to midnight. This ...

A panel of scientists and scholars said Thursday they believe the world is as close as it has ever been to a so-called doomsday scenario. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which has been tracking the ...

The Doomsday Clock has been moved one minute closer to midnight – meaning that the world is theoretically one step closer to a huge global disaster. Japan’s Fukushima accident last year was also a ...

David Schechter is a national environmental correspondent and the host of "On the Dot with David Schechter," a guided journey to explore how we're changing the earth and earth is changing us. Aparna ...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic gauge of how close humanity is to global catastrophe, remains set at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest point in its 77-year history. Maintained by the Bulletin of the ...

“Doomsday” was in the news last week. It’s an Old English word, dating to the 900s, at least. Doomsday originally denoted Judgment Day, the decisive event at the end of the world when the Almighty ...

Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft Corp., says it’s time to adopt a more measured tone when addressing climate change and the threat it poses to the world. In a ...